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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19244	An approved medicine against the deserued plague	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 566; ESTC S108496	7,273	18

Iesus we call vnto thée And Lord it is high time for our head Citie is sicke hir Sister Cities grone vnder this burden their neighbor people are turned to their earth and no part is frée from the noysome pestilence It flyeth by day it walketh in the darke it destroyeth at noone tide none can resist it but onely thou O Lord which sent it euen thou onely if thou wilt canst vtterly restrayne it O déere father forgiue vs wretched sinners relieue vs miserable wretches remember that we are but earth and ashes yet in thy mercie thy déere children deliuer vs from death and worke life in vs. Let this thy louing rodde ridde vs of our carnal rust and quicken vs with thy sanctifying spirit open our harts to thy holy word purge our cōsciences from all dead works and rebuild vs fit for thy holy seruice giue vs patience in euerie aduersitie an humble and regardant eye in all prosperitie feruent spirits to pray to thée and now to giue thée no rest till thou vouchsafe to haue mercy vppon vs. Our Prince thine holy Anoynted prayeth for vs hir potētates thy preaching ministers and sanctified people mourne and lament Thy wydows and desolate Orphanes yea thy smal and tender Infants cry lifting vp pure hands swéete Lord say they haue mercy And now O Lord both one and all powring out the teares of our hearts vnto thée most humbly besech thée relieue vs release vs heare vs forgiue vs reuiue vs preserue vs protect vs deliuer vs from euill and receaue vs into thy euerlasting fauor through Iesus Christ our Lord To whome with thée and the holy Ghost thrée distinct persons and one onely our good God be all honour and glory for euer and euer Amen An earnest prayer for the Queenes most excellent Maiestie O Lord God holy Father infinitly wise omnipotent and aboundant in mercie mightie in worke iust in reuenge which for the common conuerse of all men hast planted them plats put them vnder soueraigne auctoritie through which good gouernmēt they might most firmely liue and loue one another most wisely ordaining each one to haue mutuall need and occasioned entercourse one with another Sondry which Royall staues of bewtie and bands eftsoones thou hast broken into shieuers when by ouermuch prouocation contempt thy awonted long suffering hath bene abused as therby vnder a sparing chastisement to reduce them or by a deadly blow vtterly to subuert them O Lord magnificent by thee it is that Kingdomes are and Kings doe raigne Puttest downe one setteth vp another as where when it pleaseth thee in all euery place vnder the Coape of heauen Wee thy chosen children and people of England magnifie thy mercies and prayse thy power for giueing preseruing vnto vs a most rare and pearelesse Queene our Soueraigne Ladie ELIZABETH by whose sacred scepter thy holy Church this common weale and many other Nations and people haue found both celestiall blessings and terrestrial comforts The faithful Protestant from whersoeuer findeth heere a secure fertile norcery The wilfull papist sitteth vnder his Vyne the malcontent carnall hath long lasting fauour but euery of which by hir haue from thee O Lord thy gospell to reclayme them hir Scepter to protect them with a sweet rod in sparing hand to refine them Hir disloyall subiects at home hir professed enimies abroad of all sorts thou hast miraculously brought vnder or to vtter confusion For the which wee render vnto thee continuall praise And inasmuch O Lord as our life the light of the land thy golden Candlestick is deadly darckned in the want of hir Lord still giue vs thy bountifull mercie and therein preserue hir Highnesse long to raigne ouer vs. Encrease thy graces in hir hir goodnesse to vs to thaduaunce of vertue suppression of vice Keepe thyne anoynted our Soueraigne from the trechery of dissembling subiects and mallice of the forren foe Hide hir vnder the shadow of thy wings from the noysome pestilence and defend hir against the hurtfull sword that our selues and families may liue in peace our land may yeld hir encrease that no inuasion Psal 144.10 may empeach vs or going out may daunt vs nor any crying be in our streetes Deare Father graunt hir our Soueraigne a swift eye and speedie rescue from the subtill snare of euery wily hunter Giue hir Lord fast and not faylling confederats Wise and faithfull Councellors loyall and louing subiects and so in thy mercie keepe vs from euill that wee prouoke not thy iudgements to depriue vs of our chiefest comfort Graunt this O Father through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Preface MY Father hauing speciall care of Stepny his great charge Hath made sweet prayers for their cōfort their harts to God enlarge And I desirous of your health my bretheren Sisters all Haue sent you these to traine you vp rather on God to call For th' health and wealth of our parents our selues and neighbours eke Pray we to God with one accord for so it is most meete And so my bretheren fare you well with all my sisters deere God graunt that we may giue vnto gods word attentiue eare Antony Anderson Iunior A prayer for the infection of the plague 1593. O Lord our God omnipotent of mercy wee thee craue Poure downe thy truth most excellent that we the same may haue And cease O Lord thy iry rod which doth opresse vs sore And giue vs true repentance Lord that wee may sinne no more Cease now O Lord thy heauie hand the Father wee entreate And let vs in our harts thy woord full often times repeate From thee O Lord wee cannot fly Thy power doth so excell But keepe from vs we thee beseech thy rod which is most fell But giue to vs O Lord of might the pardon of our sinne And take thy plague from vs O Lord that heere of long hath bin Giue vs O Lord thy holy word which alwaies is most true And giue vs grace to praise thy name for praise to thee is due Remember blessed Lord thy flock which else is like to pyne And take from vs that heauie clogge which loads vs at this tyme. Thy will be done O Lord of might as seemeth best to thee For thou wilt strike where thou thinkst best no man a lette can bee When it shall please thy maiestie to take this life away Receaue our soules vnto thy Throne to liue with thee for aye O Lord preserue our noble Queene our realme and people both And keep vs from the deadly feare of thyne eternall wroth Graunt our request O Lord of might for Christ his sake thy sonne And take away thy cruell plague that now is vs among Finis qd Anthony Anderson iunior

AN APPROVED Medicine against the deserued Plague ¶ Is any among you afflicted Let him pray Iames. 5.13 ¶ JMPRINTED AT London by Thomas Est dwelling in Aldersgate-streete at the Signe of the black Horse 1593. To the honorable and vertuous Lady Scudamore attendant vppon hir Maiesties most excellent person in hir priuie Chamber Anthony Anderson Preacher of Christs holy gospell Subdean of hir Maiesties Royall Chappell wisheth all honorable encrease and heauenly felicitie ALthough Honorable Madame the matter herewith tendred be of small worth to some men lesse esteemed with many yet sure I am the right vse thereof may aduaile moe then make accompt of it If in the daies of health prosperitie wee thinck it duetifull to pray the Lord to continue the same how much more ought wee in affliction and aduersitie to practise sound petition which godlinesse hath this riches that the faithfull by it in Christ from God doth receiue both temporary good and eternall comforts Wee in this Realme are vnder the rod of affliction and who doth pray but those which are taught of God to vse it Amongst the number of whome for that in my knowledge with many others in Court your Ladiship doth dayly vse and desire it and my selfe for your good opinion and Christian kindnesse conceiued and bestowed on mee to you greatly boūd I am bold to patronize my poore indeauors present vnder your Godly protection assured that both in Court country it shal be the more in vse which vndoubtedly will counteruaile their paines if they pray in faith The cause mouing this my boldnesse to present the Church here with is my dutie to the same in general especially next to the most honorable Court whereof I am a poore membre in hir Maiesties goodnesse to my comfortable charge at Stepney a people of great import for Maryne seruice cheefely zealous in God loyall to hir Maiestie well deseruing of the whole Realme and now vnder the rod of this smart visitatiō for whom I humbly besech all them which may or shall feele any comfort by this poore tender that in their feruent prayers they will effectually commēd vs to the Throne of Gods mercies in Christ And to you good Madame with the rest of the honorable and godly Ladies and others at Court I humbly commend mee beseeching God to graunt vs mercifull deliuerance of this his louing rod that wee hir Maiesties seruants may thether returne to our boūden dutie as apertaineth and so humbly I take my leaue August 1. 1593. Stepney Your honors deuote in the Lord Anthony Anderson ¶ To the humble hearted Readers in the Lord. THE Almightie GOD the Lord of Hosts as Father of mercies deare brethern for many yéeres past hath swéetly called vs to vnfained repentance by the Ministery of his holy woord but wée haue not hearkened therevnto Wherefore eftsoones and againe the same mightie God doth at this present sommon vs by his smart Preacher Micah 6.9 the visiting rod. Whose encreasing voyce cryeth to all in the persons of many thus Oh sinfull earth hearken and giue eare stop thy course stay thy race tourne thy selfe to mée receaue my stripes with pacience and wisely foresée the plague and hide thée For he that sent mée saith farther vnto thee Pro. 22.3 Zoph 2.1 O Nation not worthie to be loued how yet haue I loued thee What should I haue done that I haue not done vnto thée I haue giuen thée a wonderfull peace an inuincible protection an heauenly doctrine and the choyse store of all earthy treasure The gold of Ophir Salomon sought after 2. Chron. 8.18 but the Indians gold I haue powred into thy lap as vnlooked for A Prince thou hast the holy wonder of the world Else aske the Ilands which know not God Thy Realme and rest is kept by mée the watchman thereof and when soeuer the enimie assaileth I put him back with great disgrace The heauens doe drop the fatnesse the earth doth make thée laugh and sing what wouldest thou haue more but a continuance of that spirituall comfort and corporall pleasures which yet abide with thée but be wise and consider sée how I now begin to beate thée beware therefore repent in tyme least I vtterly remoue Reue. 2.5 thy Candlestick from thée and then who will pittie thy last dissolution Behold and heare my rod Micah 6.9 and mée that sent it I haue made thée sick with striking doe not my percing arrows stick fast in thée Psal 38.2.5 Are not thy wounds putrified Doth not hasty death greatly deuoure thée Mark it well and the cause therof Thy sinne is the cause Micah 6.13 thy great sinnes and they passing accompt Oseas 9.9.17 Turne therefore vnto mée that am in iust angre comming vnto thée with a mynde of reuenge prepare thée therefore to méete mée before the daye of my decrée come foorth Psal 106. in all Lucke 7.38 Ioel. 2.13 Come to mée not with Israells hipocrisie but with Magdalens teares Rent your harts and kéepe whole your garments for I cannot take pleasure in that bodely exercise where the penitent spirit speaketh not for mercie If any be afflicted let him pray Iam. 5.13 If many be vnder the rod let all come together turne together mourne together cry together and say O Lord of Hosts in the midle of thy wars thinck vpon thy promised mercies Wée come no more to fight against thée in our sinfull lusts but to fall before thée forsaking confessing our sinnes swéet Lord haue mercie And let euery of you Esa 1.5.6 Hos 4.1 Iero. 8.6 from the top to the toe for you are sore from the head to the foote applying profitably the contrauersie to your selues say Our sinnes O Lord yea euery man say my sinnes as our sinnes are the causes of this malady Our rebellions presumptions scorning Atheistical our Romane sinnes our carnall apetites present past remembred and forgotten sinnes Sinnes without remorse without conscience against all conscience euen when the spirit quaketh in dread euen thē the flesh burneth in lust Sinnes in Court vnbridled sinnes in the Church not repented of in the country not cared for Iero. 17.27 The prophanation of the Sabboth day the abhominations in the wéeke day no truth lesse trust Hose 4.1.2 no faith to God no loue to our brethern much fayll of loyaltie to the Prince and small proofe of due obedience to hir Magistrates But a mightie scorne of the Lords Preachers through an vtter contempt of his woord Resolute in league with sinne Esa 28. death and hell and an absolute distrust of Gods sure promises either for mercies or Iudgement And what should I say more Oh how many are the foolish wise which say in vnpunished boldnesse they haue no God Psal 14.1 There is no God Oh England O people why wilt thou dye Say to thy selfe Oh Soule repent thée of thy sinne Iero. 18.8 26 3. Psal 91.4.7 and God will